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How to Make Folders and File structure from your CLI?

Published Jul 7, 2022 Updated Jul 7, 2022 Technology

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How to Make Folders and File structure from your CLI?

Augustin Lima

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Starting a coding project begins with determining the folders and file structure. At times, we might make them from scratch for reasons relative to the work at hand, but more often than not, we build from existing project folders and templates sitting on our desktop or external drive.

Though it might be intimidating at first, making your folders and files from the command-line interface in those rare instances is fast and easy to wrap one's head around. Moreover, its velocity plus the ability to decipher and complete commands save you keystrokes and give you superpowers.

To create folders and files from the command-line interface, you only need to know three Unix commands: The mkdir command for making a directory, the cd command for changing the directory, and the touch command to